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• Login to VIRL2 and Create a Simple Topology, on page 1

• Access the Console in the Running Routers, on page 9
• End Running Simulation, on page 13

Login to VIRL2 and Create a Simple Topology

Value Proposition: This scenario demonstrates how to launch a sample topology within the VIRL sandbox.

Important The Cisco internal VIRL community operates and maintains VIRL. This demonstration introduces VIRL and
enables remote access to the VIRL environment. If you experience any performance or configuration issues
while using VIRL, report issues to virl-support@cisco.com.

Procedure

Step 1 On the remote desktop, launch Chrome, and click the VIRL2 bookmark. Enter a username of guest, password
C1sco12345 and click Login.

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Step 2 Click Add Lab.

Step 3 Rename the lab IOSv-Lab and press the Enter key.

Step 4 Click in the white area below the IOSv-Lab entry you just made.

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Step 5 In the Add Nodes section of the window, click and drag the IOSv icon onto the drawing canvas.

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Step 6 Repeat step 5 to click and drag a second IOSv node onto the drawing canvas.

Step 7 Hover over the IOSv-0 router node and click to select the blue link connection icon.

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Step 8 Drag the connection link to the IOSv-1 router node. This step might take some practice.

Step 9 After you complete step 8, you should see a prompt to Select source and target interfaces to create link.

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Step 10 Click Use Next Available.

Step 11 Notice the connection has been created between the two routers.

Step 12 For the devices to have a minimum configuration, we must have VIRL create the bootstrap configurations.
Towards the bottom of the window, click the Design tab.

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Step 13 Click Build Initial Bootstrap Configurations.

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Step 14 On the bottom row of tabs, click Simulate.

Step 15 In the lower left-hand corner of the window, click Start Lab to start the simulation.

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Step 16 After about two minutes, the status icons will change to green once the devices are active.

This concludes scenario 1.

Access the Console in the Running Routers

Value Proposition: This scenario demonstrates how to access the device console in order to configure onto
the network.

Note This scenario assumes that the simulation is active per the previous scenario.

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Procedure

Step 1 Hover over the iosv-0 device to bring up the device options.

Step 2 Click the console (black) option for device iosv-0. Then, on the bottom pane, click Open Console.

Step 3 At the bottom of the window, click anywhere in the black console section and press Enter to access the
console prompt.

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Step 4 Notice the ios-0> router prompt in the lower left-hand corner of the window.

Step 5 At the console prompt, type enable and press Enter. When prompted, type cisco for the password. Then press
Enter to login into the router and access enable mode.

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Step 6 In the lower right-hand corner of the window, click to enable the Auto checkbox so you can see more than
80 columns of output.

Step 7 Notice the expanded view for better visibility.

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This concludes scenario 2.

End Running Simulation

Value Proposition: This scenario demonstrates how to end a simulation.
In order to save your lab for later use, we are required to end the active running simulation.

Procedure

Step 1 To defocus the selected node and focus the lab, click anywhere in the white topology pane.

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Step 2 Select the Simulate tab and click Stop Lab to end the current running simulation.

Step 3 Notice that status indicators for both routers now show that the routers are no longer running (indicators show
a gray circle with an x in it).

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Note Please note that at the time of this writing VIRL2 has not undergone FCS, so features might not
work all of the time.
This concludes scenario 3.

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